Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-03

election. They had worked the deluded
and ignorant negroes up to condition OF
frenzy, and prepared them fo- just such
deeds as the murder of young Bolton.
When these negroes were hung, without
being threatened, without being denied
the protection of the laws, do not know
whether their lives were IN danger or not
they supposed they were, and left the
county.
telegrsphed yesterday for some infor-
nation to Hon. d. c. Glddings, who re-
sides in Brennan, who is well known in
this and the other House, having been g
Representative for many years in the
other House of Congress, and received an
answer, which send TO the desk, and ask
that it be read.
The Chief Clerk read as follows:
BRENNAN, TEN Jan. &c, 1857.
Senator Richard Coke, Washington:
Stephen a. Hackworth, James l.
Moore, and Carl Schultz are of the worst
type of scalswags. They have been the
main instruments of stirring up strife
between the races and are charged with
instigating the murder of Bolton on cleo
ton day. They were not driven from
home, nor were their lives threatened,
nor were they denied the protection OF
the law. So far as l know or believe
their own guilty consciences caused them
70 leave thu country TO its great good.
Send you by mail authoritative refutation
of charges made in their memorial Aft
davlts by the thousand can be furnished
as to their want of character and general
worthlessnesS. D. G. GIDDINGS.
Mr. Coke. Now, Mr.. President, that is
the statement of q gentleman who is q
Democrat of course, but than whom
there is no better man in that or any other
state. There are gentlemen on this floor
who have served in the other House with
him; there are many Senators who know
him, and they know he would state moth
ing but the truth: and that is his state
ment as to this memorial and the allegs-
lions IN it.
In the election which occurred on the
9Th day OF November, Washington county
being Republican county, there was a
colored man elected to the Legislature.
1t is large and populous county; it is c
wealthy county. There is large majority
of Republicans in the county; they have
control of the county offices and have
given maiorities heretofore always for the
Republican ticket; yet here are three men
who claim that they have teen compelled
to leave that county because they are
Republicans. Can that be the reason,
sir? Must there not be SINE other rea-
son? Can large majority of Republi-
cans be supposed to permit men to be
driven out of the county for the simple
reason that they are Republicans? The
statement bears its own retutstion on lis
face.
In that county the officers who have al
ways been Republicans, have been of such
character that the county has been well
nigh bankrupted. Twice within the last
few years have county treasurers default
ed with large amounts of money ia their
possession, and although the county is
Republican, the people came to the con-
"lusion that they must have honest county
government, and for their county officers
they put ticket known as. the peoples
ticket. These men, Hackworth, Moore,
and Schultz, Republican bosses, men who
had led and deluded the negroes, seeing
that the scepter was about to depart from
them, used all their power to intiame and
delude the negroes; and one of the results
of their efforts was the killing of young
Bolton in cold blood. They knew these
facts to be true; they imagined that their
lives were in danger, and they fed the
county.
Their consciences made towards OF
them. That they were compelled to leave
because they were Republicans is refuted
by fact of their own statement that q
large majority of their fellow citizens of
Washington county are also Republicans.
We are willing that Washington county,
or any other county in Texas, shall be
investigated upon fair presentment of
adequate cause, bnt do object to being
arraigned upon the charge of single in
dlvidual who has had to leave his county
and state and home because there is not
public sentiment to maintain him there.
submit, Mr.. President, that the Senate
should not adopt this resolution, because
to adopt it and allow the good name of
one of the states of this Union to be
aspered upon no testimony at all is an
injustice that should not be tolerated in
the Senate of the United States.
The originator of the resolution Mr..
Hoar, followed with set partisan speech
in support of the investigation from
which we make the following extracts.
Mr. President, this memorial is pre-
sented by persons who apparently have
as high title to respect as any citizens
of the United States. One of them has
been the district attorney, state officer,
in the state of Texas, an office employing
and requiring high standard of charae-
Ter and legal capacity. Another has been
q county Judge, native Texan. The
district attorney is q German, and the
editor of q Republican newspaper. An
other, Mr.. Hackworth, has been County
Judge, as say, native Texan, son of
one of Houston's soldiers IN the war for
The independence of that state. The
third is native of the stste of Alabama.
All three are men of property, who say
hat they were earning their living in
peaceful, lawful, and honorable ways,
ind that they have been driven out from
heir homes on American soil They
we're residents of that county. Nobody
doubts that. They are refugees and eX-
les. Nobody doubts or questions that.
Among the facts that they allege is the |
act that three colored men, election Off
;ers in that county, were taken from the
all and hung by mob without trial when |
In application for habeas corpus was de- |
bending on the ground that they were i'm
,risoned without right or without lawful
;harge; and the Senator from Texas ad-
nits that so far as the hanging of these
men without right was concerned, his in
ormation is that it was necessary to do